October 2018 – Celtic Life International

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A Scottish Ghost Story

October 31, 2018 by editor 2 Comments

Ballantrae is a village on the south-west coast of Scotland. It is in South Ayrshire. Ballantrae is famous as the setting for the novel The...

Reading time: 11 min

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Dark Tourism

October 30, 2018 by editor No Comments

If you have ever taken part in a ghostly graveyard tour or visited any haunted houses, you have engaged in a bit of “dark tourism.”...

Reading time: 3 min

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Keeping it in the Family

October 27, 2018 by editor No Comments

Seamlessly blending classic and contemporary melodies, Cape Breton’s first and finest musical family the Barra MacNeil’s adhere to the ages-old adage if it ain’t broke,...

Reading time: 6 min

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Declan Henry

October 26, 2018 by editor No Comments

Irish writer Declan Henry was born in the town of Ballymote, Co. Sligo, later moving with his parents and brothers to the rural C0. Mayo...

Reading time: 3 min

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Rachel Mclagan

October 25, 2018 by editor No Comments

Like her parents and grandparents, Rachel Mclagan grew up Blairgowrie, Perthshire - one of those iconic, small Scottish towns much-visited by tourists looking to experience...

Reading time: 3 min

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Josh Hogg

October 24, 2018 by editor No Comments

Josh Hogg recalls the very day that he was inspired to pick up the bagpipes. “The Benoi High Pipe Band visited my elementary school here...

Reading time: 3 min

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Gillian Head

October 23, 2018 by editor No Comments

Four years after the release of her first recording, Spirit, Cape Breton fiddler Gillian Head has launched her follow-up album, Tidal. “I think my playing...

Reading time: 3 min

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Crowdie Stuffed Mushrooms

October 21, 2018 by editor No Comments

Since they are not a vegetable, but rather a delectable fungus, mushrooms have a mysterious aura all their own. Mushroom farmers in Japan have an...

Reading time: 1 min

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Skerryvore

October 20, 2018 by editor No Comments

Skerryvore has been bringing their unique brand of Celtic fusion to audiences for more than a decade. Recently, the eight-piece group released its sixth studio...

Reading time: 3 min

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The Irish Whiskey Trail

October 19, 2018 by editor No Comments

There are nearly as many different types of pubs on Ireland’s Whiskey Trail as there are shades of green on the island, according to Heidi...

Reading time: 3 min

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The Glory of Glenfarclas

October 18, 2018 by editor No Comments

Like most of the Scottish distilleries to open in the 18th and 19th centuries, Glenfarclas was a farm before becoming a distillery. Whisky making requires...

Reading time: 4 min

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Being Bradley Cooper

October 13, 2018 by editor No Comments

Bradley Cooper is not not happy to be on the press tour for “A Star Is Born,” the movie he specifically, exactingly, meticulously, perfectionistically, obsessively directed, co-wrote...

Reading time: 26 min

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Celts on Ice

October 9, 2018 by editor No Comments

A dig into the history of the National Hockey League reveals that the NHL's ‘Celtic Era’ came and went anything but quietly. From 1919 to...

Reading time: 4 min

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A History of Tartan

October 3, 2018 by editor No Comments

Regardless of your political affiliations, when a Prime Minister arrives to the Conservative Party Conference in a Vivienne Westwood Anglomania suit in Black Watch tartan,...

Reading time: 5 min